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The New Reality of Campaign Finance

August Umholtz With Congressional midterms now just weeks away it is likely that far fewer members of Congress will lose their seats that would normally be expected. With Congress’s approval rating at around 14%, the lowest before an election since 1974, this fact seems shocking.[1] There are countless reasons why we are seeing so many […]

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Good News for the Republican Party

Yanet Gonzalez ’17  Inside Politics Hillary Clinton’s potential 2016 run for the presidency has the Democratic Party thrilled in hopes of maintaining their hold of the White House. The Republican Party, however, is feeling the pressure as they work hard to find a candidate capable of battling Clinton. Despite the fact that neither party has […]

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Eisenhower’s Burden

Vishal Bajpai ’16  Inside Politics Does anyone remember what President Eisenhower had to say about military spending? No, not the military-industrial complex bit. The other bit, the bit most people never talk about. He said, “Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies, in the final sense a theft from those […]

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All Talk, No Action? Immigration Reform at a Stalemate in the House

Audrey Bowler ’16  Inside Politics Immigration reform has loomed large on the American public policy stage in recent months; however, progress has been stalled in the House of Representatives as the Republican Party struggles to incorporate the concept of immigration policy into their party platform without compromising key ideals. Sixteen months after losing the White […]

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The Week in Review: Political & Economic Uncertainty

Michael Arnone ‘15 In the last few days, three separate issues have developed that have supplemented political and economic uncertainty: Wall Street has begun preparing for the potential catastrophe of the looming fiscal cliff, concerns have been raised regarding the security arrangements at the U.S. mission in Benghazi that was attacked in September, and Republicans […]

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